Software

Custom Kernel Config for FreeBSD 8-Stable

For FreeBSD system upgrades, my # make buildkernel is instructed to use a custom kernel config at /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/CUSTOM64. It includes:

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include GENERIC
machine amd64
cpu     HAMMER                  # aka K8, aka Opteron & Athlon64
nocpu   i486_CPU
ident   CUSTOM64
nomakeoption DEBUG

## No IPv6
nooptions       INET6
nooptions       SCTP            # Stream Control Transmission Protocol

## No Debugging stuff
nooptions INVARIANTS
nooptions INVARIANT_SUPPORT
nooptions WITNESS
nooptions WITNESS_SKIPSPIN

nodevice        eisa

nodevice        fdc

## Disable various ATA systems we will never have
nodevice        atapicd         # ATAPI CDROM drives
nodevice        atapifd         # ATAPI floppy drives
nodevice        atapist         # ATAPI tape drives

nooptions       MSDOSFS         # MSDOS Filesystem
nooptions       CD9660          # ISO 9660 Filesystem

device          ahci

nodevice        urio
nodevice        uscanner
nodevice        aue
nodevice        axe
nodevice        cdce
nodevice        cue
nodevice        kue
nodevice        rue

# PCMCIA and cardbus bridge support
nodevice        cbb             # cardbus (yenta) bridge
nodevice        pccard          # PC Card (16-bit) bus
nodevice        cardbus         # CardBus (32-bit) bus

# Parallel port
nodevice        ppc
nodevice        ppbus           # Parallel port bus (required)
nodevice        lpt             # Printer
nodevice        plip            # TCP/IP over parallel
nodevice        ppi             # Parallel port interface device

# FireWire support
nodevice        firewire        # FireWire bus code
nodevice        sbp             # SCSI over FireWire (Requires scbus and da)
nodevice        fwe             # Ethernet over FireWire (non-standard!)
nodevice        fwip            # IP over FireWire (RFC 2734,3146)
nodevice        dcons           # Dumb console driver
nodevice        dcons_crom      # Configuration ROM for dcons